Sade's mother, Marie Eléonore de Maillé de Carman Title and heirs In 1766, he had a private theatre built in his castle, the Château de Lacoste, in Provence. In 1763, on returning from war, he courted a rich magistrate's daughter, but her father rejected his suitorship and instead arranged a marriage with his elder daughter, Renée-Pélagie de Montreuil that marriage produced two sons and a daughter. He eventually became Colonel of a Dragoon regiment and fought in the Seven Years' War. André of the Comte de Provence's Carbine Regiment. After thirteen months as a sub-lieutenant, he was commissioned to the rank of cornet in the Brigade de S. After twenty months of training, on 14 December 1755, at age 15, Sade was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant, becoming a soldier. Later in life, at one of Sade's trials the Abbé testified, saying that Sade had a "passionate temperament which made him eager in the pursuit of pleasure" but had a "good heart." At the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he was subjected to "severe corporal punishment," including flagellation, and he "spent the rest of his adult life obsessed with the violent act." Īt age 14, Sade began attending an elite military academy. While at the school, he was tutored by Abbé Jacques-François Amblet, a priest. Later in his childhood, ten-year-old Sade was sent to the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, a Jesuit college, for four years. Shortly thereafter, his reportedly distant mother also abandoned him, joining a convent. He was raised by servants who indulged "his every whim", which led to his becoming "known as a rebellious and spoiled child with an ever-growing temper." After an incident in which he severely beat Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, six-year-old Sade was sent to live under instruction of his maternal uncle, the Abbé de Sade, who "introduced him to debauchery". His parents' only surviving child, Sade and his family were soon abandoned by his father. Sade was born on 2 June 1740, in the Hôtel de Condé, Paris, to Jean Baptiste François Joseph, Count de Sade and Marie Eléonore de Maillé de Carman, distant cousin and lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Condé. The Château de Lacoste above Lacoste, a residence of Sade currently the site of theatre festivals In contrast, the French hedonist philosopher Michel Onfray has attacked this interest in Sade, writing that "It is intellectually bizarre to make Sade a hero." There have also been numerous film adaptations of his work, including Pasolini's Salò, an adaptation of Sade's controversial book The 120 Days of Sodom, as well as many of the films of Spanish director Jesús Franco. Prolific French intellectuals such as Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault published studies of him. There continues to be a fascination with Sade among scholars and in popular culture. During the French Revolution, he was an elected delegate to the National Convention. He wrote many of his works during these periods of confinement. ĭespite having no legal charge brought against him, Sade was imprisoned or committed for about 32 years of his life, time divided between facilities such as the Château de Vincennes, the Bastille, and the Charenton asylum, where he died. Sade was a proponent of free public brothels paid for by the state: In order both to prevent crimes in society that are motivated by lust and to reduce the desire to oppress others using one’s own power, Sade recommended public brothels where people can satisfy their wishes to command and be obeyed. While Sade explored a wide range of sexual deviations through his writings, his known behavior includes "only the beating of a housemaid and an orgy with several prostitutes-behavior significantly departing from the clinical definition of sadism". The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name in reference to the works of fiction he wrote, which portrayed numerous acts of sexual cruelty. His work is a depiction of extreme absolute freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion, or law. Many of the characters in his works are teenagers or adolescents. Sade is best known for his erotic works, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, suffering, anal sex (which he calls sodomy), child rape, crime, and blasphemy against Christianity. In his lifetime some of these were published under his own name while others, which Sade denied having written, appeared anonymously. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts. Marie Eléonore de Maillé de Carman (mother)ĭonatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade ( French: 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer famous for his literary depictions of a libertine sexuality as well as numerous accusations of sex crimes.Jean Baptiste François Joseph, Comte de Sade (father).
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